An online survey of institutional repository (IR) managers identified copyright clearance trends in staffing and workflows. The majority of respondents followed a mediated deposit model, and reported that library personnel, instead of authors, engaged in copyright clearance activities for IRs. The most common “information gaps” pertained to the breadth of information in copyright directories li...

Responses from UHCC Strategic Planning Council Spring 2009 Responses ascending value within characteristics The Community College Inventory provides descriptions of eleven characteristics that are strongly focused on student success -that is student persistence, learning and attainment. Related to each characteristic is a set of indicators that more fully describe observable institutional pract...

The separated electromagnetic responses RL(q, ω) and RT (q, ω) for inclusive electron scattering off nuclei are studied within a functional scheme.

introduction natural hazards as recurring phenomenon have always existed in human life and will in the future, too. nowadays natural hazards occur throughout the world, but their impacts have been increasing and are generally much greater in developing countries than in developed ones. earthquake is a kind of natural hazard that has the most damages for humankind. earthquakes pose inevitable ri...

This paper analyses the effects of distance asymmetries on Portuguese inward foreign direct investment (FDI) from relatively more, and less, developed countries through lenses institutional distance. We a panel dataset composed 35 origins FDI during period 2003-2015 analysed it series multiple regression techniques. Results suggest that, when investing in Portugal, with lower levels development...

In this paper, we demonstrate the benefit of role allocation in a collective of autonomous robots performing a simple transport task. We demonstrate that, under certain conditions, the performance of the collective can be improved when a subset of the robots assume institutional roles as traffic regulators. The concept of institutional roles is part of a highlevel approach to the control of mul...